Dentistry | |
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Intervention | |
ICD-9-CM | 23-24 |
MeSH | D003813 |
A dentist treats a patient wi the help o a dental assistant. | |
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Occupation teep | Profession |
Activity sectors | Heal care an cosmesis |
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Eddication required | Dental Degree, Medical Degree |
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Dentistry is a brainch o medicin that is ensorlt in the study, diagnosis, forfendin, an treatment o diseases, disorders an condeetions o the oral cavity, commonly in the denteetion but the oral mucosa, an o adjacent an relatit structurs an tishies forby, pairteecularly in the maxillofacial (jaw an facial) aurie. Awtho primarily associatit wi teeth amang the general public, the field o dentistry or dental medicin isna limitit tae teeth but includes ither aspects o the craniofacial complex includin the temperomandibular an ither supportin structurs. The term dentistry comes frae odontology (frae Auncient Greek ὀδούς (odoús, "tuith")) – the study o the structur, development, an abnormalities o the teeth. Acause thare substantial owerlap in thir concept, dentistry is aften unnerstuid tae subsume the nou lairgely defunct medical specialty o stomatology (the study o the mooth an its disorders an diseases), for that raison the twa terms is uised interchyngeably in certain pairts.
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